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We work so hard and they don't use it: acceptance of software tools by teachers

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Ronit Ben-Bassat Levy,

Mordechai Ben-AriAuthors Info & Claims

ITiCSE '07: Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

Pages 246 - 250

https://doi.org/10.1145/1268784.1268856

Published: 25 June 2007 Publication History

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Animation systems-software tools that can show a dynamic view of the execution of a program-were designed to help novices improve their understanding and to help teachers facilitate learning. Preliminary studies on the effectiveness of animation systems on the understanding of students have shown encouraging results. Nevertheless, the use of animation system is not very widespread. This paper presents the results of a phenomenographic study designed to describe the different ways that teachers experience the use of an animation system as a pedagogical tool. The results suggest that increased acceptance of such tools by teachers depends on integrating the tools with other learning materials and on addressing the role of the teacher in the use of software by the students.

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Index Terms

We work so hard and they don't use it: acceptance of software tools by teachers
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Animation
  2. Modeling and simulation
    1. Simulation types and techniques
      1. Simulation by animation
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education

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ITiCSE '07: Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 39, Issue 3
Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE'07)
September 2007
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